On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:03:50PM -0800, Nate Diller wrote: > i had a patch integrating the iodesc idea, but after some thought, had > decided to call it struct file_io. That name reflects the fact that > it's doing I/O in arbitrary lengths with byte offsets, and struct > file_io *fio contrasts well with struct bio (block_io). I also had > used the field ->nbytes instead of ->count, to clarify the difference > between segment iterators, segment offsets, and absolute bytecount. struct file_io sounds rather ugly to me, I don't know why. And it's really user I/O so we could call it struct uio (historical punt intended) :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
